Article
RNA-mediated non-mendelian inheritance of an epigenetic change in the mouse.
Nature - 25 May 2006
Rassoulzadegan Minoo, Grandjean Valérie, Gounon Pierre, Vincent Stéphane, Gillot Isabelle, Cuzin François
Abstract excerpt
Paramutation is a heritable epigenetic modification induced in plants by cross-talk between allelic loci. Here we report a similar modification of the mouse Kit gene in the progeny of heterozygotes with the null mutant Kit(tm1Alf) (a lacZ insertion). In spite of a homozygous wild-type genotype, t...
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